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Launched in August , Parker is on track to set another record late Monday night. NASA expects to get the first batch of data in December, but the spacecraft has another mission: it holds a memory card with the names of over 1.1 million people who signed up to "travel" to the Sun. (more...)

The benefits provided by wildlife and nature are not just things that are "nice to have", the report's authors stress. This report shows that many species are dwindling at an alarming rate. The Living Planet Index looks at the falls in each species, rather than in the total wildlife population. The pace of loss is staggering in some ecosystems. (more...)

The storm's winds have increased to 75 miles per hour, making it a Category 1 hurricane. Additional strengthening is expected, and Oscar could become a hurricane after transitioning to a tropical storm later this weekend or early next week. (more...)

Right now, the wind is coming from south, southeast and east. "One strong wind is enough for dispersion of entire pollutants load". The measures recommended by the task force are only preventive steps and not to create panic as the air pollution in Delhi is governed by meteorological conditions, he said. (more...)

The Bermuda Weather Service said the storm was moving west at about 19.5 mph with winds of more than 64 mph and gusts of 79 mph. Oscar is moving to the west at 16 miles per hour. Subtropical storms have less defined and cooler centres than tropical storms. The Atlantic hurricane season ends on November 30, but it usually peaks on September 10-11. (more...)

Hawaii's East Island vanished overnight after being walloped by Hurricane Walaka. Rising sea levels are also eroding away low-lying islands, with several fragments of land in the Pacific vanishing in recent years. If conditions align, an atoll would always be at a small risk of being erased by a powerful hurricane. Just days after one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the Pacific, one remote Hawaiian archipelago was all but gone. (more...)

The full October Hunter's Moon peaked on Wednesday night but will remain until Thursday night, according to NASA . Other than suggesting the change of the season, people also have various spiritual beliefs related to astronomy around the October Full Moon . (more...)

The breezes increase too out of the northeast. High: 75. Wind: N 10-15 miles per hour. Tonight's low will be near 40. Saturday is rainy, breezy and chilly. There's the chance for a few showers. Early in the morning on Monday , before daybreak, a few wet flakes could even mix in before temperatures start to warm, especially to the west and northwest of Harrisburg. (more...)

Some of what was said Tuesday about the federal government's move to send tax rebates directly to residents in provinces subject to an additional carbon levy from Ottawa. Ottawa required all provinces to put a minimum price on pollution of $20 a tonne of emissions by January 1. Trudeau's promotion of the tax includes highlighting the government's plan to offset the hit to a family's pocketbook for gas purchases with carbon price rebates. (more...)

Creating a new branch of the military would be subject to Congress' approval, but the council, led by Vice President Mike Pence , is recommending that the nation build a Space Force and structures that would usher it into existence. A lack of centralized leadership and accountability threatened USA ability to "advance our national security in space", Pence said. With the help of the Congress, the United States Space Force will be created as the sixth branch of the armed forces. (more...)

Scientists hope the light will replace streetlights . However, the artificial moon will have eight times the brightness of the actual moon, which is 380,000-km above the earth. On this regard, Wu notes that the tests will only be done in uninhabited deserts where it will not interfere with any people. If this proves to be a success, more moons will likely start popping up around the country. (more...)

One of five remaining copies of Hawking's 1965 doctoral thesis from Cambridge University will be part of the auction. A motorized red and maroon leather wheelchair Hawking used from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s is also for sale. According to a statement by the Christie's, Hawking's "mischievous attitude" to piloting his wheelchair became legendary, both in Cambridge and further afield. (more...)

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has built one spacecraft , ESA has built the other. It was named after Italian mathematician and engineer Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo , who was known for his work related to Mercury. The latest mission by the Japan-Europe team, named BepiColombo after Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo, a mathematician who deducted that the Mariner 10 spacecraft could do multiple fly-bys of the planet, is meant to reveal the mysterious history of Mercury's formation and its ... (more...)

The picture was taken last week by scientists on a Nasa research plane. Sitting amid a chaotic jumble of floating ice, it looks perfectly rectangular, as though it was deliberately cut. "In addition, IceBridge collects critical data used to predict the response of Earth's polar ice to climate change and resulting sea-level rise". The tabular iceberg, as it's called, is believed to have broken off from the Larsen C ice shelf, which calved a berg the size of DE past year. (more...)

NASA has discovered an incredible 1.6 kilomtre-long, perfectly rectangular iceberg floating in the Antarctic. Well here's something you don't see everyday: an iceberg so unbelievably geometric in shape you'd think it was deliberately carved with a huge chainsaw. (more...)

Packing winds of up to 155mph, Willa is just 2mph away from becoming a Category 5 hurricane. Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 30 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extended outward up to 105 miles. It was projected to weaken somewhat before hitting land but was still expected to be extremely unsafe. It warned of the danger of flash flooding and landslides in mountainous areas. (more...)

Bolsonaro said in an online video that he had no knowledge of such activity and called on any supporters doing so to stop. There are around 120 million users of the messaging service in Brazil, whose population is 210 million. Yet new questions arose on Friday about the effectiveness and consequences of that technology. For its part, a movement called United Women against Bolsonaro said that they are united 'because a candidate for the presidency of the country, with a discourse based on ... (more...)

Fantastic for all the veterans", said Facebook user Angela Doggett on the social media page of the company that organizes the climbs. Yesterday, the couple were at the Opening Ceremony, in an open air auditorium in front of Sydney's famous Opera House. (more...)

They are framed by some of the brightest stars in the night sky, adding to their spectacle. However, you can go out on any clear night between now and November 7 to catch a few meteors. Look at the entire sky. "The particles come from Comet 1P/Halley, better known as Halley's Comet. This comet leaves debris in its wake that strikes Earth's atmosphere most fully around October 20-22, while Earth intersects the comet's orbit, as it does every year at this time". (more...)

They're just not "God" in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim sense of the word. Hawking, considered one of the most brilliant scientists of his generation, died in March at the age of 76. "How good is the track record of the human race in using advances in technology for the good of ordinary people?" His greatest concern, his daughter said, "is how divided we've become", adding: "He makes this comment about how we seem to have lost the ability to look outward, and we are increasingly looking ... (more...)